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By: John Prebble

ISBN: 9781474616188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The dramatic account of the Tay Bridge tragedy - the dream that ended in disaster
'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES


(Paperback)

By: John Prebble

ISBN: 9780712668200
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2002
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2002
Publisher: Vintage
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The detail for the story told in Culloden has come from regimental Order Books and manuals, from contemporary newspapers and magazines, from the letters and memoirs of soldiers and officers, eye-witness accounts of atrocity and persecution, and the personal stories of the victims themselves.


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By: John Prebble

ISBN: 9780712668538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2002
Publisher: Vintage
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Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political identity, defied the King and the persistent hostility of the English to establish a noble trading company, to settle a colony, and to recover its people from a century of despair, privation, famine and decay.


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By: John Prebble

ISBN: 9780140028973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1973
UK Publication Date: 25th January 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. This book describes the terrible events at Glencoe.


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By: John Prebble

ISBN: 9780140028379
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1982
UK Publication Date: 31st May 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the terrible aftermath of the battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Offering a reconstruction of Culloden, the author recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation.